Jon Krakauer- a willfull, self-absorbed, moody man who is the author of the book. He is described as intermitently reckless and fantasized climbing mountains in Alaska. He climbed the Devil's Thumb.
John Menlove Edwards- deeply troubled writer and psychiatrist who before putting an end to his life with a cyanide capsule in 1958, had been one of the preeminent British rock climbers of the day. He regarded climbing as a "psycho-neurotic tendency".
Lewis Krakauer- Jon Krakauer's father who was a volatile and extremely complicated person. He never admitted to being wrong that Jon can remember and was a weekend mountaineer who taught Jon to climb. He was a kind and generous man who loved his five children very much, but masked it by a competitive nature. Life as he saw it was a contest. He was ambitious to the extreme and his plan in life was for his kids to go to Harvard Medical School. He was diagnosed with polio and shortly after he was cured, he began having "post-polio syndrome" and was in alot of pain. He began to medicate himself and at one point, tried to commit suicide and made sure Jon was present. He was eventually committed to a psychiatric hospital after trying to kill himself.
Fred Beckey- a legendary Alpinist who made the first ascent of the Devil's Thumb.
Priscilla Russell Kari- the author of Tanaina Plantlore, the book Chris used to tell which plants he could eat and which were poisinous.
Sir John Richardson- a famous Scottish surgeon, naturalist and explorer. The bottonist who wrote a scientific description of H. mackenzii.
Tom Clausen- a colleague of Professor Bryant's in the Chemistry Department at the University of Alaska.
Will & Linda Forsberg- the well-known Healy dog mushers whose cabin was wrecked and their prime suspect is Chris McCandless.
Steve Carwile- an employee of Denali National Park.
Jon Krakauer- a willfull, self-absorbed, moody man who is the author of the book. He is described as intermitently reckless and fantasized climbing mountains in Alaska. He climbed the Devil's Thumb.
John Menlove Edwards- deeply troubled writer and psychiatrist who before putting an end to his life with a cyanide capsule in 1958, had been one of the preeminent British rock climbers of the day. He regarded climbing as a "psycho-neurotic tendency".
Lewis Krakauer- Jon Krakauer's father who was a volatile and extremely complicated person. He never admitted to being wrong that Jon can remember and was a weekend mountaineer who taught Jon to climb. He was a kind and generous man who loved his five children very much, but masked it by a competitive nature. Life as he saw it was a contest. He was ambitious to the extreme and his plan in life was for his kids to go to Harvard Medical School. He was diagnosed with polio and shortly after he was cured, he began having "post-polio syndrome" and was in alot of pain. He began to medicate himself and at one point, tried to commit suicide and made sure Jon was present. He was eventually committed to a psychiatric hospital after trying to kill himself.
Fred Beckey- a legendary Alpinist who made the first ascent of the Devil's Thumb.
Priscilla Russell Kari- the author of Tanaina Plantlore, the book Chris used to tell which plants he could eat and which were poisinous.
Sir John Richardson- a famous Scottish surgeon, naturalist and explorer. The bottonist who wrote a scientific description of H. mackenzii.
Tom Clausen- a colleague of Professor Bryant's in the Chemistry Department at the University of Alaska.
Will & Linda Forsberg- the well-known Healy dog mushers whose cabin was wrecked and their prime suspect is Chris McCandless.
Steve Carwile- an employee of Denali National Park.